What is causing this patient's recurrent angioedema?

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Sunil Sharma is N. Leroy Lapp Professor and Chief of the Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine and director of the MICU and pulmonary and sleep medicine program development at West Virginia University Medicine in Morgantown, W.Va. Kassandra Olgers practices in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine at West Virginia University Medicine. The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.

Published: September 2023

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